Book II, ch. 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)
The Elder Zossima, speaking to a devout widow afraid of death
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
“Ah, souls, you can easily sin as the saints—but can you repent with the saints? Many can sin with David and Peter, that cannot repent with David and Peter—and so must perish forever!”
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Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
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English Puritan 1608–1680Related quotes
“No sin is unforgivable except the sin that is not repented of.”
Source: Saint Silouan the Athonite (1991), p. 83
“759. Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Genesis II, 7 (p. 7)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8
“As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.”
Source: For The Sake of Heaven (1945), p. 44
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 38
The Doctrine of Repentance (1668)
As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch